Curling in Canada and The United States: A Record of the Tour of the Scottish Team, 1902-3, and of the Game in the Dominion and the Republic

Edinburgh: Geo. A. Morton, c. 1904. Edition: First Edition., Binding: Original publisher’s black cloth with gilt moose decoration on top cover and gilt text and decoration on spine. Top edge gilt. Pasted and free endpapers that serve as advertisements for Robert Sanderson’s Scotch., Notes: A thorough account of the origins of curling in Canada and the United States and a description of the Scottish Curling team’s tour through the two nations during 1902-1903. There is a bookplate on the verso of the top cover that shows that this book was presented to the Fraser Institute in 1924. , Size: 8vo (198x133mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with two frontispiece photographs of Lord and Lady Minto as well as numerous photographs of various people and places that played an important part in the development of curling in Canada and the United States. There is also a colour advertisement for Sanderson’s Mountain Dew Scotch on the pasted endpaper on verso of the book. , Category: Book Canada; Book Americas U.S.; Book Sports; Book History; Book Europe United Kingdom;. Upper cover strengthened, otherwise the book is in very good condition. Item #B5554

Edition: First Edition., Binding: Original publisher’s black cloth with gilt moose decoration on top cover and gilt text and decoration on spine. Top edge gilt. Pasted and free endpapers that serve as advertisements for Robert Sanderson’s Scotch., Notes: A thorough account of the origins of curling in Canada and the United States and a description of the Scottish Curling team’s tour through the two nations during 1902-1903. There is a bookplate on the verso of the top cover that shows that this book was presented to the Fraser Institute in 1924. , Size: 8vo (198x133mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with two frontispiece photographs of Lord and Lady Minto as well as numerous photographs of various people and places that played an important part in the development of curling in Canada and the United States. There is also a colour advertisement for Sanderson’s Mountain Dew Scotch on the pasted endpaper on verso of the book. , Category: Book Canada; Book Americas U.S.; Book Sports; Book History; Book Europe United Kingdom;.

Price: $275.00

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